Quotes About Warning

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacobís pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the kingís harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

for this is what Amos has said: ëJeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”

Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ëDo not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.í

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ëDisaster will never draw near or confront us.í”

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.